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Silver award: Detecting drugs
Students research, and then try out, ways of detecting analgesic compounds in mixtures:
• Chemical tests for particular organic functional groups.
• Paper and/or thin-layer chromatography to separate and identify analgesic mixtures.
• Colorimetry to measure the concentration of analgesic in solution - students will need to find a way of converting the colourless analgesic into a coloured compound.
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